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Baby Blessings

Uniquely custom, non-religious blessings for your newborn.

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All of our packages include an innovative, immersive blessing writing process.

It’s the beginning of your child’s life. Welcome them through a blessing.

Pricing ranges between $500-625.

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1

Getting to Know You and your family Through Unlimited Meetings

We’ll send a questionnaire to learn about you two. Your answers will help us guide the following conversations together. We like to keep our conversations casual like friends chatting. We’ll ask some questions to help you tell your story, learn about your family and discover what will make this truly a special moment for you and your little one.

*applies to all packages except our base package, an affordable option for couples with limited budget.

2

Writing Your Story 100% Template-Free

Our writing process is truly like none other. We’ll send a link to a Google Doc so you can be part of the process while we write your ceremony 100% from scratch. We’ll setup additional meetings to keep learning about you and revise the ceremony until it’s perfect. We don’t use templates or filler material.

3

Prepping You for Your Day

No matter how big or small your ceremony is, our prep materials will help guide you up until the blessing. You’ll head into your ceremony with nothing to worry about – we’ll guide you through the entire thing!

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Base

Starting at
$500
  • Only for past clients
  • Fully customized ceremony (100% from scratch – no templates!)
  • 1 digital meeting
  • Monday-Thursday Blessing
  • Any location 40 miles within the Chicago area
  • Video questionnaires for you two and your family + friends which you can keep as a memento
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Standard

Starting at
$625
  • Fully customized ceremony (100% from scratch – no templates!)
  • (+Unlimited Face to Face meetings)
  • (+Sunday-Wednesday Blessing (weekend availability is limited but available for an additional charge))
  • Video questionnaires for you two and your family + friends which you can keep as a memento
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Your Team of Officiants

All of our officiants are professionally trained storytellers and writers with prior experience telling stories. Read and watch a bit more about them below!

Dan from Liz Rae Weddings

Liz

Founder + Officiant

(she/her)

Liz founded Liz Rae & Co in 2015 during her best friend Maranda’s engagement. Her friend, Timmie, at the time also struggled with finding an LGBTQ-friendly officiant that custom-wrote ceremonies. Liz believes the ceremony is the best part of the wedding day and wanted to make a change in the industry by emphasizing not only the important of marriage ceremonies but insluvity as well.

When she isn’t writing ceremonies, she works for a tech company during the day and a film production company by night. She’s been writing her whole life, but gained her storytelling knowledge through Faber Academy’s novel program and UCLA’s TV and Film Writing degree. You can read some of her writing on her website, Liz Rae and more notably on Thought Catalog.  She writes freelance for a variety of clients in various industries.

She speaks Spanish, some French, and some Italian, and she’s lived in France, Italy, Spain, Peru, the United Kingdom. She’s traveled to every continent except Antarctica.

She loves writing weddings of all kinds — her favorite part about the job is figuring out how to tell each and every story! She can’t wait to get to know you and be part of your wedding. 🙂

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